Annotated Bibliography on Employability Skills of Graduates

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1ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jackson, Denise. "Testing a model of undergraduate competence in employability skills
and its implications for stakeholders." Journal of Education and Work 27, no. 2 (2014): 220-
242. Retrieved from http://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
article=1009&context=ecuworks2012
This article explicitly discusses the issues related to the standards of recent graduates in
the domain of specific skills which are unable to accomplish the industry standardization. The
author of the article represents and evaluates a model of undergraduate proficient in employment
skills. The article identifies several factors associated with the standards and value of graduation
in recent times which fail to accomplish the professional as well as generic skills. The article
focuses on evaluation of institution-centric abilities frameworks have established a broad range
of various approaches to enhance the level of employment skill. Furthermore, it has been noted
that the most effective strategy is to entrench and examine the consequences through
fundamental, discipline-centric units which effectively concentrate the framework. The article
provides a well-established analysis on the collective implication of the life spheres pertaining to
the perceived ability of the undergraduates in specific employability competences. Furthermore,
the author provides a full evaluation of proposals whereby stakeholders engaged in the
undergraduate education system to assess their associations with student organizations by
emphasizing on cheaper membership options, improved accessibility to networking events and
distinctive accreditation standards which aim to develop the level of undergraduate skill
outcomes1.
1 Jackson, Denise. "Testing a model of undergraduate competence in employability skills and its
implications for stakeholders." Journal of Education and Work 27, no. 2 (2014): 220-242. Retrieved from
http://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=ecuworks2012

2ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wilton, Nick. "Do employability skills really matter in the UK graduate labour market?
The case of business and management graduates." Work, employment and society 25, no. 1
(2011): 85-100. : http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017010389244
The purpose of the article is to assess the way the higher education system of UK has
undergone a significant transition while advancing from influential to mass provision. The author
explicitly stated that the graduate labour market has been significantly changed both in the
constitution of the graduate labour supply along with wide range of occupations which graduates
subsequently enter. Certain factors have been distinguished which states the importance of
rationales which are demonstrated in the process of development of higher education by the
current administration of UK government that reflects the perception related to the investment in
human capital as well as enduring process of learning that is considered to be the groundwork of
global economy. However, it has been noted in the article that the transition to the collective
higher education system recognized by the policymakers as an essential tool through which an
allocation of potential knowledge employees in order to accomplish the rising rate of “high skill”
jobs in the economy. The strength of the article lies on the way the article assesses the levels of
reported ‘employability’ which serve a decisive role to the employment implications and aid in
surpassing the factors related to social disadvantage the students of business and management
domain tend to encounter2.
2 Wilton, Nick. "Do employability skills really matter in the UK graduate labour market? The case of
business and management graduates." Work, employment and society 25, no. 1 (2011): 85-100. :
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017010389244